Operation Red Book

Chapter 443 Lilith's Question

"Lilith..."

Ivy looked at the delicate face in front of her and gently repeated this familiar yet unfamiliar name.

The blue lake water flooded over their bodies, but Ivy did not feel suffocated, nor did she even feel the presence of the water.

Everything was so peaceful, as if I had returned to my mother's womb, with the amniotic fluid surrounding my tiny body, safe, quiet, and peaceful...

The surroundings were spinning, the world was turning upside down, the crescent moon was hanging in the sky, shining and dazzling, and the face in front of me was smiling like a flower, beautiful and charming...

"Lilith..."

Ivy half-closed her eyes and slightly parted her lips. She had already drowned in the devil's star-like eyes.

The demon opposite stroked her face, from the back of her head to her collarbone, then went around to her back, patting her gently like a mother.

It seems to be comforting, but also seems to be hypnotizing.

Ivy was overwhelmed with sleepiness, but she couldn't bear to turn off the world in front of her.

The end was not far away. She saw it, a bottomless pit with water gushing out. It was so big that it could almost hold the whole world.

"Take some sleep, my dear..."

The devil's whispers rang in my ears, blurry and beautiful.

"No..." Ivy shook her head.

"Why? Isn't it good to fall asleep? You haven't slept for a long, long time..."

"No..." Ivy still shook her head. She felt a little weightless, perhaps because she had reached the edge of the black hole.

She stared into those beautiful eyes and whispered, "I still have a lot of things to do and a lot of people to say goodbye to. This shouldn't be my ending."

"My ending should at least be to put my body in a boat filled with flowers, and float it down the river to the sea. The rotten flesh will be eaten by small fish, and my bones will be scattered by the storm. My hard teeth will become the witness of my existence, sinking to the bottom of the sea and buried by the sand..."

"Thousands of years later, or tens of thousands of years, or hundreds of millions of years later, the sea will turn into mountains, and the mountains will turn into grasslands. At that time, I will see the sun again and see the dazzling sunlight again..."

"What about your soul? Have you forgotten it? Humans have souls..." Lilith asked, holding her hand.

"Soul?" Ivy narrowed her eyes and smiled. "We Orientals believe in three lives and three worlds, and in cause and effect and reincarnation."

"If this was my previous two lives, I would continue to drink Mengpo soup, cross the Naihe Bridge, and reincarnate. This time, I still want to be my mother's child."

"Because I left her for a long time, without saying goodbye or apologizing, and the potato pancakes she made for me are still in my schoolbag."

"Although it's very salty, I was about to throw it away, but if I were given another chance to go back, I would eat it all..."

"What if it's the last life?"

Lilith curled her lips at some point, and the two stopped moving forward. Her eyes were full of desire, as if she was expecting Ivy's next answer.

"I signed a contract with a demon named Dorian. My soul will be captured and eaten by him."

"He said he won't eat you." Lilith laughed again, "He said he would keep your soul in your body, and then do his best to protect you until his soul is gone and his energy is exhausted..."

Ivy opened her eyes again. She was a little surprised, but more astonished.

"Why?" she said with trembling lips.

"He said he loves you." Simple answer.

Suddenly, endless waves came from all directions, suffocating Ivy.

Two lines of tears burst out of Ivy's eyes, and her heart felt as if it was stabbed by thousands of needles.

"What about you? Do you love him too?"

Lilith wiped away Ivy's tears with lake water. She looked at Ivy's wet eyes expectantly and continued to ask.

She is like a little beast that has lived for tens of thousands of years. She does not understand love in the world, but is extremely curious about the strange emotions of humans.

"I……"

Ivy was crying so hard that she couldn't breathe. She didn't know whether she should shake her head or nod. She only knew that her heart was in pain, so painful that she couldn't speak. Her mind was filled with the thought of that thin olive-colored figure.

"I don't know...I really don't know..."

"Tell me... tell me... who do you love? Who is the person you love?"

"Mom..." Ivy said in a sticky voice with tears in her eyes, "Kristen, Mrs. Hudson, Luna, Hilda, Ms. Bell, Miss Mingcan, Xiaoqi and Xiaojiu..."

"And...Joshua, Sherlock, Harry Potter, Draco, Keanu Reeves, Captain America, Thor, Superman, Fassbender, James Bond...If I add one more, it'd be Uncle Ba! He's the Daddy in my mind!"

Talking about handsome guys, Ivy suddenly became more energetic. Her eyes, which were about to close, lit up at this moment, and her painful heart also came to life at this moment.

Ivy felt as if she were bathed in spring breeze, and her cheeks were flushed deeply.

As expected, women still need to look at those handsome men more often to have the strength to make a living...

It would be better if we were not in such a dangerous situation...

"Roar--"

The demon in front of her suddenly let out a howl from the depths of hell, piercing Ivy's pink bubble of fantasy.

The scarlet blood instantly dyed the entire blue lake red, and blue flames were burning all around, as if it was a hellish hot spring frequented by demons.

For a moment, Ivy saw a black snake head, its mouth opened 180 degrees, and its sword-like fangs could pierce her body from head to tail.

"Only! One!"

The roar of a downpour of rain sounded beside me, like a big drum, hammering down the soft flesh in my heart and stirring up a mess of mud.

Ivy's breathing continued to get heavier, Lilith disappeared, and the rapidly spinning black hole expanded several times in an instant.

"Only! One!"

The roar echoed in Ivy's ears, endless and without end.

"What!" Ivy covered her ears and shouted.

"Only! One!"

"Only! One!"

"Only! One!"

"Keanu Reeves! I've chosen! Keanu Reeves!"

"Roar--"

The storm in my ears roared again. If the previous roar was a tornado on land, then this roar was a hurricane at sea that destroyed everything.

"What do you want me to choose?"

Ivy swam desperately backwards, but to no avail.

"look at me!"

Suddenly, Lilith appeared in front of Ivy, and her appearance was completely different from before.

Her upper body was naked, and her lower body was a thick, long snake tail. Her thick, dense black curly hair fluttered behind her head, with clusters of blue flames at the end.

Extending upward from the forehead were two straight and thick devil horns, much larger than the other two Ivy had seen.

Her eyes were still beautiful, with black cracks all around her eye sockets, emitting a dazzling blue light.

She opened her mouth full of fangs and held up a blue fire butterfly in her left hand. The butterfly fluttered its wings and slowly turned into Dorian, whose whole body was covered with blue flames.

"Dorian..."

Another blue butterfly flew up from the water and transformed into the appearance of Joshua.

"Joshua Williams..."

Then, one blue butterfly after another soared up and turned into the men around Ivy.

"Vincent Waite..."

"Leon De Luca..."

"Sherlock Holmes..."

"Zhu Yuanzhang..."

After a while, six puppet-like men lined up neatly in front of Ivy.

Lilith raised her hands high, and her ten fingers moved flexibly.

She grinned, proudly showing her upper and lower fangs, and her voice was as sinister as the crawling of an anaconda.

"There is only one person you love, who is it?"

"I love my mother, she is glorious and great."

"From here! Only one... must be chosen... the person in your heart..."

"I don't choose." Ivy shook her head firmly.

"No...can't..." Lilith raised her neck high, her eyes filled with anger.

"I just don't understand why it has to be them."

Ivy calmed down a lot. She knew that when faced with such a demon who didn't understand emotions, there was only one way to defeat him.

She had used this method on Dorian before, and now she believed that it could work on Lilith as well.

After all, demons are a bunch of despicable little bad dogs. They carry many desires, but only desires, no love.

Therefore, compared to appetite and lust, curiosity is the biggest weapon that kills them.

Love-brained... that's the best way to describe them.

"Why can't it be them?" Lilith tilted her head in confusion.

"Why does it have to be them?"

Ivy stared at Lilith and slowly walked towards her.

"Why can't it be them?" Lilith blinked as she looked at the puppet that was being torn apart by Ivy.

"Why can't it be you?"

Ivy gently held Lilith's hand and slowly moved closer with her cheek and body.

"why me?"

"Actually, it could be you..."

Ivy's fingers gently brushed Lilith's plump lips, and her lips gradually got closer.

"Can it be me...?"

Lilith opened her lifeless eyes, and then felt her lips getting hot.

The next second, the flames burned Lilith's entire body, especially her already broken and chaotic mind.

The next second, the lake water suddenly returned to normal, and the waves surged onto Ivy's body, lifting her onto the surging lake surface.

"Pfft-"

Ivy struggled violently on the water, the lake carried her around rapidly, and her final destination was a bottomless black hole in the center of the lake.